Abstract
We report on the first measurements of 3H beta autoradiography obtained using a room temperature hybrid pixel detector, consisting of the Medipix2 single particle counting read-out chip bump-bonded to a 300 μm thick silicon pixel detector. This system has 256×256 square pixels of 55 μm pitch for a total sensitive area of 14×14 mm 2. Each pixel contains a double threshold discriminator and a 13-bit counter. Using a detection threshold equivalent to less than 6 keV and a background count rate of 5×10 −3 counts mm −2 s −1, with exposures up to several hours, real-time images have been obtained of tritium-labeled solution drops spotted on a thin mylar foil placed in contact with the continuous top electrode of the silicon detector, in open air condition.
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